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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Montevideo or Valletta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’s own page.

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Montevideo 55, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Valletta 55: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Valletta 46: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Valletta 56: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Valletta 44: Montevideo leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Valletta 32: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Valletta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m56 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoValletta
City population1,302,9545,197
People per km²1,7856,496
Museums within 10 km3616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.